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From: "Maximilian Bräutigam" <max-braeu@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:01:14
Message-Id: 1242482470.3832.9.camel@maxrechner
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue by Mike Kazantsev
1 Am Samstag, den 16.05.2009, 18:09 +0600 schrieb Mike Kazantsev:
2 > On Sat, 16 May 2009 13:33:04 +0200
3 > Maximilian Bräutigam <max-braeu@×××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 > > could you please tell me, where to find these options in menuconfig,
6 > > because if i'm compiling my kernel i use:
7 > > genkernel --menuconfig all
8 > >
9 > > if you are thinking of the options in
10 > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml
11 > > -- these are enabled.
12 >
13 > Yes, I mean these options as well, but in recent kernels there's one
14 > more flag in "Multi-dev" section that's missing in the guide:
15 > "Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot".
16 > Obviously, it should be set if you want to boot from mdraid.
17 >
18 > Device Drivers --->
19 > [*] Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) --->
20 > <*> RAID support
21 > [*] Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot
22 > <*> RAID-1 (mirroring) mode
23 >
24 > But that's not all the prequesites, since you also need a device
25 > and fs driver compiled in.
26 >
27 > It might look like this (but the hardware and/or fs is probably
28 > different in your case):
29 >
30 > Device Drivers --->
31 >
32 > SCSI device support ---> (RAID settings here is not for sw raid)
33 > -*- SCSI device support
34 > <*> SCSI disk support
35 >
36 > <*> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --->
37 > <*> AHCI SATA support
38 > [*] ATA SFF support
39 > <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support
40 >
41 > File systems --->
42 > <*> The Extended 4 (ext4) filesystem
43 >
44 >
45 > > by the way, if i'm booting w/o the initrd, i get a kernel panic because
46 > > he is not able to mount/find the raid system -- something with
47 > > "superblock not found".
48 >
49 Hi Mike and all other gentoos ;)
50
51 all of your mentioned options are enabled (since genkernel and me did
52 it).
53
54 i copied all data to another partition /dev/sdb9 and disabled initrd. by
55 the way, i think that initrd was running, because all the scans after
56 executing the initrd ran without problems. despite, i disabled it and
57 got a kernel panic, like:
58
59 """
60 [md] scanned 0 and added 0
61 ...
62 VFS: cannot open root device "sdb9" or unknown block(0,0)
63 please append correct "root="
64 ...
65 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
66 unknown-block(0,0)
67 """
68
69 i don't know how to handel this error, since my grub entry is correct
70 (or not?):
71
72 """
73 title Gentoo Linux x86_64-2.6.28-5 (no initrd) (on /dev/sdb9)
74 root (hd1,8)
75 kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/sdb9
76 """
77
78 kind regards,
79 der Max

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Re: [gentoo-user] * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@×××××××.net>